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PJ Power

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  1. How Soon Is Now stands out awkwardly for The Smiths. It's an excellent song and perhaps their most recognisable, but it is very different to the rest of their catalogue. But it's perhaps a good hook to get the casual listener into more of their more moody tracks like Last Night I Dreamt The Somebody Loved Me and That Joke Isn't Funny Any More and then expand from there. Just a shame the vocals on all of them comes from such a thunderous twat - thankfully not at an Ian Watkins level though that would render all of it into a woodchipper.

    Anyway, I think that corporal punishment should be reintroduced into this country both at schools and also as a judicial punishment.

  2. On 7/11/2018 at 7:00 PM, Big Benny HG said:

     

    SmackDown used to be on UPN, when that was still a broadcast channel.

    If my memory isn't letting me down, SmackDown started out on UPN. When the UPN & WB broadcast TV networks merged to form the CW, it continued on there until the late noughties when myNetworkTV, another broadcast TV network at the time (ironically set up to accommodate stations which were ex-UPN or WB and whose affiliation did not transfer over to the CW) took on the programme for two years. But poor ratings in general for mNTV  shows meant it stopped being a TV network and they dropped SmackDown which in turned moved to SyFy and hence away from broadcast/over-the-air TV and on to "basic cable" like Raw. With SmackDown moving to the Fox TV network it means it is a real return to broadcast/OTA TV after a number of years. I wonder if they'll do any crossovers? I think it would be fun seeing Sheriff John Bunnell from World's Wildest Police Chases do some guest commentary.

  3. 22 hours ago, Carbomb said:

    Anyone really surprised? Apart from (maybe) The Rock, I've yet to see any WWE wrestlers that weren't right-wing Republican or "Libertarian". Working in a McMahon-run company, you're probably going to at least end up somewhere not far from him on the political spectrum, even if you didn't start there. And JBL's not only a wrestler, and a Texan one at that, he's also an American entrepreneur, which means he's most likely somewhere slightly to the left of Genghis Khan.

    I'd guess that at least among American born wrestlers on the roster past and present many of them subscribe to the principal of rugged individualism, though there's been a few that have definitely expressed opinions that would put them to the left or center of the American political spectrum. Mick Foley, Jim Cornette, Wade Barrett and Seth Rollins spring to mind. I'm not sure of Daniel Bryan's one time claim of being a socialist on NXT is the truth or just a kayfabe line at the time.

  4. Was there not a story a while back that Big Class wasn't liked much backstage and in the locker room that was down to him continuously going on about Donald Trump and that he was rubbing a lot of people there up the wrong way not because they were anti-Trump but rather that they felt that general talk of politics wasn't really welcome much in the "workplace"?

  5. 4 hours ago, Briefcase said:

    The promo video says its live to the whole world so will assume its on the network. Think the stadium can hold 120,000 too. 

    Official capacity is just a shade over 100k. You could then add a few more '000s for pitch-level seating but then deduct some for whatever stage setup they might have that renders stand seating unusable.

  6. Seriously hoping that the mens MITB match has someone get "injured" beforehand leading to a last-minute mystery replacement. The other seven are in the ring, the announcer says "and the last participant is..." and a few seconds later 'Cult of Personality' hits - huge crowd pop only for Roman Reigns to come out as the last minute entrant who goes on to get the briefcase in less than five minutes after the bell on his first run up the ladder having taken no big hits or bumps. Reigns then immediately announces he's cashing it in straight away for the WWE Championship (Styles or Nakamura) after that match earlier in the evening ends in a bloodbath with both men barely able to walk back through the curtain. Bell goes, quick superman punch then a spear, cover, gets the pin, new WWE Champion! Fans are a little upset, Chicago PD riot squad called to the arena.

    Probably not happen though.

  7. 14 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

    I get the feeling lots of people who aren’t even expecting to miss him will as well. I think history will judge Cena far more kindly than the current gang of welps who go to the live shows.

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